Quote- Does God desire my happiness?

“Doesn’t God want me to be happy? Doesn’t God care about my comfort and safety? The resounding answer is … ‘NO,’ God does not care about my comfort and safety. God does not care whether I am happy or not. What God cares about, with all the power of God’s holy being, is the quality of my life, the scope of my life, the heft and zest of my life. The deep secret of Jesus’ hard words is that our fear of suffering and death robs us of life, because fear of death always turns into fear of life, into a stingy, cautious way of living that is not really living at all.”

Barbara Taylor